Egotistical memoirs
by Charles Albert Whittier
The Civil War recollections of Charles A. Whittier involving the Battles of Ball's Bluff, Antietam, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spottsylvania Courthouse and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, and the negotiations that led to Lee's surrender; the author's observations regarding: Generals Willis Gorman, Edwin Sumner, Henry Halleck, Henry Benham, Henry Eustis, Philip Sheridan, and others, and in particular his service with General John Sedgwick; the Medical Department; and the dire effects of drunkenness in a number of generals.
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Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863, United States, Temperance, Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862, Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November), Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861, United States Army Medical Dept., Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864, Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864, HistoryPlaces
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On verso of leaf 21 in ms.: Egotistical memoirs, C.A.W., Feb'y 13, 1888, M. Mil'y Hist. S'y.
Includes emendations in pencil.
Typescript bound with ms. letter from the author regarding his composition of these memoirs.
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